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<blockquote data-quote="On_Call" data-source="post: 58894" data-attributes="member: 3211"><p>I try very hard to only take one at a time - easy child or difficult child. And, oddly enough, they try to keep count and take turns.</p><p></p><p>They used to ask and ask and ask for things. I started making a list before I went. Whichever child goes with me gets to keep track of the list and cross things off as we go. It took me a while to get used to it, but it seems to distract them enough to stop the constant begging for sugary cereals and/or the .25 toys in the $1.00 aisle. And, I have had to learn that if difficult child takes one of every coupon in the little coupon dispenser thingies they put in the aisles, the world will not come to an end. Actually, both munchkins come home with coupons usually.</p><p></p><p>Last week, I went to the store for something like 10 items. I went alone and had the darndest time concentrating and getting the things and getting out of the store. I think at this point, I am so used to the distraction of one of them being with me that I don't function the same without it! :hammer: Hee hee.</p><p></p><p>My Mom once cut out a cartoon from a magazine and gave it to me - it showed a Mom coming home with grocery bags - two children in two - the caption read "I'm so tired of being known in the store as clean-up in aisle 9". :slap:</p><p></p><p>You are definitely not alone!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="On_Call, post: 58894, member: 3211"] I try very hard to only take one at a time - easy child or difficult child. And, oddly enough, they try to keep count and take turns. They used to ask and ask and ask for things. I started making a list before I went. Whichever child goes with me gets to keep track of the list and cross things off as we go. It took me a while to get used to it, but it seems to distract them enough to stop the constant begging for sugary cereals and/or the .25 toys in the $1.00 aisle. And, I have had to learn that if difficult child takes one of every coupon in the little coupon dispenser thingies they put in the aisles, the world will not come to an end. Actually, both munchkins come home with coupons usually. Last week, I went to the store for something like 10 items. I went alone and had the darndest time concentrating and getting the things and getting out of the store. I think at this point, I am so used to the distraction of one of them being with me that I don't function the same without it! [img]:hammer:[/img] Hee hee. My Mom once cut out a cartoon from a magazine and gave it to me - it showed a Mom coming home with grocery bags - two children in two - the caption read "I'm so tired of being known in the store as clean-up in aisle 9". [img]:slap:[/img] You are definitely not alone!! [/QUOTE]
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